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Figurative Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
"The Meeting 29" Ink Transfer and Pastel Architectural Figure by Seth Clark
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "The Meeting 29" is an original artwork by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through". made of ink transfer, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Fine 1700
s Italian Old Master Ink
Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical India
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'India'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches
con...
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
A Fabulous, Surrealist 1946 Mid-Century Modern Abstract Portrait of a Young Man
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fabulous, Surrealist 1946 Mid-Century Modern Abstract Portrait of a Young Man by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Titled "Introspective Stare", the drawing is ...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
1940s Netting the Catch
By Walter P. Taylor
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive watercolor figurative of fisherman pulling in the nets by Walter P. Taylor (American, 20th Century). Signed "W.P. Taylor U.S.N.R.'45 (for United States Naval Reserve)" low...
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1940s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Man’s Head
By William Etty
Located in London, GB
Charcoal and white chalk highlight on paper
Label of J.M Maas Gallery (verso)
36cm × 28cm (54cm × 43cm framed)
Etty, a student of Thomas Lawrence, R.A., was the first significant Br...
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19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Land
s End (Black Surrealist Philadelphia artist)
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roland Ayers (1932-2014).
Land’s End, 1971
Ink on paper, 3.25 × 5 inches
Signed and dated.
Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Ali...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
MB 076 A&B (Double Sided Figurative Charcoal Drawing of Male Nudes)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative drawing of male nudes made with graphite, charcoal, and conte crayon on Arches paper
30 x 22 inches, unframed
One piece of 30 x 22 inch Arches. Two drawings, one on either...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
Jeanne-marie Barbey (1876-1960), Trees in Winter, Brown ink wash
Located in PARIS, FR
Jeanne-Marie BARBEY (1876-1960)
Trees in winter
Brown ink wash and graphite pencil on paper
Signed lower right
26 x 20 cm
frame 46 x 40 cm
Born Louise Jeanne Marie Barbée in 1876 in...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Chanel Pastels, Fashion, Watercolor Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Gianni Agnelli in Marrakesh
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
An Late 1930s Fashion Study Featuring a Women’s Hat
Coat, Marshall Field
Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring a woman in a hat and coat from Marshall & Co. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art In...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
$280 Sale Price
42% Off
Cariatide
Located in Palm Desert, CA
“Cariatide” is a figurative work on paper in a subtle palette of blue on buff paper by Italian, Blue Chip artist Amedeo Modigliani. The artwork is signed in pencil, lower right, “Mo...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Archival Paper
$375,000
1920
s Elegant Couple in the Snow - Original handsigned watercolor - 1930
By Marcel Bloch
Located in Paris, IDF
Marcel BLOCH
1920's Elegant Couple in the Snow
Original watercolor with gouache enhancement
Handsigned bottom left
c. 1930
On vellum 35 x 24 cm at view (c. 14 x 10 in)
Information ...
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1930s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
"House Studies Series I", Layered Paper and Drawing Collage, Architecture
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This layered paper and drawing collage titled "House Studies Series I" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. Through a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Graphite
Gwen Verdon "Redhead" Original Caricature Drawing NY Times Published Tony Awards
Located in New York, NY
Gwen Verdon "Redhead" Original Caricature Drawing NY Times Published Tony Awards
Al Hirschfeld (1903 – 2003)
Gwen Verdon in "Redhead"
Sight: 14 1/2 x 19 inches
Ink on board
Signed l...
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1950s Performance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - France Landscape by M. Saint-Guily
Located in Soquel, CA
Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - Seascape after Edouard Doigneau
Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - France Landscape by M. Saint-Guily. Lively watercolor of boats at the s...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
At Isleta, New Mexico Western Landscape Painting, 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
At Isleta, New Mexico, c. 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right, titled verso
15 x 20 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – A...
Category
1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Adolf Dehn, Haitian Scene A, signed painting, Associated American Artists, 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Arthur Dehn
Haitian Scene A, ca. 1951
Watercolor gouache on board
Signed on the front
Frame included: held in vintage modern frame
Measurements:
Framed:
11 inches vertical by 13 inches horizontal by .75
Painting
4.5 inches by 6 inches
Watercolor gouache, hand signed; framed with AAA Gallery label verso
Signed on the front bearing the original label on the verso of Dehn's longtime gallery, the prestigious Associated American Artists Gallery, New York City.
Provenance
Associated American Artists
Frame included: held in vintage frame with original label as provenance
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti -- the subject of this work. It was part of a series inspired by Dehn's visit to Haiti.
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti.
ADLOF DEHN
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere - not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic "little magazines" such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895 - 1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Soldiers Playing Cards
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Soldiers Playing Cards', watercolour and gouache on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1939). Such an atmospheric image, this stunning depiction by celebrated F...
Category
1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
$3,535 Sale Price
20% Off
Study for Alyssa II
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A charcoal portrait drawing of a young woman.
"The emotional intensity found in Bauman’s figurative work is astounding. A hallmark of Bauman’s character portraits is that, somehow,...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
“Woman in Plaid”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an original watercolor and gouache with traces of acrylic paint fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Painted ...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Standing Female Nude
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Standing Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Exhibiting a spare and exceptional use of brushwork...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Humorous Gentleman
s Magazine cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Cartoon sketch, ca. 1955. Pencil on paper, sheet measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Unsigned with editor's notations.
From a group of sketches meant to be preliminary drafts for editor appro...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$125 Sale Price
50% Off
A Striking Early Modern 1934 Abstract WC by Hananiah Harari, "Les trois graces"
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, Early Modern, Figurative Abstract Watercolor by Notable New York Avant Garde Artist, Hannah Harari (Am. 1912-2000). Titled "Les trios graces" (The Three Graces), the art...
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1930s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
Si...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
(After) "The Gleaners" Ink Drawing Painting Study
Located in Houston, TX
The original "The Gleaners" is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. ...
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19th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES
Located in Portland, ME
Michallet (attributed). ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES. Four Charcoal drawings, each on heavy wove paper, 19th Century. 24 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches (s...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Reading Before Bed, Original Illustration, Mother, Daughter, Cat, Book Worm
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Robert Konersman (American, 1889 - 1975)
Signed: Konersman (Lower, Left)
" Reading Before Bed " c. 1900-1920
Watercolor and Gouache on Paper Laid on Illustration Board
Image Size...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Christmas Winter English watercolor of a Robin on a holly bush
By Ella Bruce
Located in Woodbury, CT
An outstanding painting by author and painter Ella Bruce. This watercolor is of the finest quality and shows the skill of the painter to the full. A vibrant and unique piece. The white highlights are painted in gouache or body color, which gives the piece great depth and and added level of quality.
This and the others from the collection were Im sure painted for Christmas or Holiday cards...
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1970s Victorian Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Talking To Whoever Is Listening - Figurative Surrealist Watercolor Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...
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2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
The Violinist (Antique Ellsworth Woodward Figurative Graphite Sketch Drawing)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
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1890s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
contemporary figurative color oil charcoal pop art interior surreal
Located in New York, NY
This is a hand painted oil and mixed media artwork on canvas by internet sensation mad charcoal
He is represented by Krause Gallery NYC
Ships rolled in ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Oil
Saltmarshes, Parkstone
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on board, 6 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (163 x 362 mm), the full sheet. Signed and dated in watercolor in the lower margin, recto, and titled in pencil with various extensive nota...
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Early 20th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Patchwork farms, Cornish coast
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 3/8 x 11 1/8 inches (238 x 283 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with scattered small pin-point spots of discoloration on the ...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Jurassic Coast, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper, 5 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches (147 x 290 mm), the full sheet. On the verso is an unfinished sketch in graphite which is titled "Gardens, 3 Kent T...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Grange lane to the sea
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 x 12 inches (228 x 306 mm), the full sheet. Titled illegibly and dated in pencil in the lower right margin, recto. In good condition wit...
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Early 20th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fields, Cowley, Oxford
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on artists board with white heightening through abrasion with the the brush stick, 6 3/4 x 14 1/4 (172 x 362 mm), the full sheet. Signed and dated in watercolor in the low...
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Early 20th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
WWII Anti-Nazi Poster - Jimmy Stewart
s Sister
Located in Miami, FL
It's the beginning of WWII, and the Nazi war machine is on the move. For an anti-Nazi poster competition, female illustrator Mary Stewart chooses a very yo...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Gouache, Illustration Board
Ancient Persian Miniature: Men with Scimitar - Probably 18/19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 15 X 10 cm.
This Persian Miniature scene of men with scimitar is a unique precious original painting on the front with handwriting...
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18th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Tempera
Man with Telephone - Surrealist Black and White Portrait in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Man with Telephone - Surrealist Black and White Portrait in Ink on Paper
Surrealist composition by an unknown artist (20th Century). A man dressed in a su...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pen, Pencil
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
MB 018 (Figurative Life Drawing of Handsome Male Nude by Mark Beard)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic life drawing of male nude with charcoal and graphite by Mark Beard, "MB 018"
graphite, Conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper
30 x 19 inches unframed
Signed, lower right
...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Standing Male Model (Back)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Nude Model (Back) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 1930s...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
MOMA Exhibited Watercolor by Chicago Artist Francis Chapin, "Tourists in Taxco"
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, vibrant, early Mexican city street scene by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Titled "Tourists in Taxco", the watercolor was exhibited at the M...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sonoma County Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sonoma County Landscape" 1901, is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Elizabeth Hoen, 1868-1955. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 6 x 7.5 inches, framed size is 12.5 x 13.65 inches. Custom framed in a gold frame, with beige matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Born in Santa Rosa, California to a pioneering California family, Elizabeth Hoen was known for her watercolor paintings, many of them landscapes, in impressionist style. Her father, Berthold Hoen started a trading post in the Carillo adobe, the first building erected in the Sonoma Valley. He also helped survey and lay out the city of Santa Rosa.
Elizabeth Hoen is not only the first painter to have their work cataloged into the Sonoma County Museum’s collection, but she was also a prolific artist in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and maintained a studio during a period when California art was largely dominated by men. She was from an important family in early Sonoma County history. Her father, Berthold Hoen, purchased land from the Carrillo family that would one day be...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
An Intimate 1930s Modern Charcoal Study of a Seated Young Male at a Lake House
Located in Chicago, IL
An Intimate, 1930s Modern Charcoal Study of a Seated Young Male Figure by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Most likely completed circa 1932 at a summer lake ho...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
1950
s Modernist Painting - Portrait Of Figure On Gold
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Gold Man
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century), stamped verso
original watercolour/gouache painting on paper
overall size: 111.75 x 8.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
$471 Sale Price
30% Off
Horse
Rider Attacking Foot Soldier from De La Bataille Vol. I
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Homage a Leonardo d'Vinci (Horse & Rider Attacking Foot Soldier from De La Bataille Vol. I)
Original drypoint, signed lower right, ed. VIII/L
Art: 11-5/8" x 15-1/2"
Frame: 27-5/8"...
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1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Drypoint
Angle with Bird - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Angle with Bird is a modern artwork realized by Leo Guida in the 1970s.
Good condition.
Ink drawing on paper.
Leo Guida has been able to weave a productive interview on art and th...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
New Brighton Eucalyptus Landscape
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor of eucalyptus along New Brighton beach by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Mon...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$300 Sale Price
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Parley at Bristol, 1643 - 19th Century English Civil War Seige Painting Cromwell
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Parley at Bristol, 1643’ by Charles Cattermole RI, RBA, ROI (1834-1900). The painting – which depicts the surrender of Parliamentary forces under Nathaniel Fiennes to Prince Rupert ...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
contemporary figurative color oil charcoal pop art interior surreal
Located in New York, NY
This is a hand painted oil and mixed media artwork on canvas by internet sensation mad charcoal
He is represented by Krause Gallery NYC
Ships rolled in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Oil
H. Cromwell - 1797 Watercolour, The Ruins of Wolvesey Castle, Winchester
Located in Corsham, GB
Two figures stand amidst the ruins of Wolvesey Castle, framed by a crumbling arch. The artist employs careful, fine brushwork in this late eighteenth-century watercolour. Inscribed w...
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Early 18th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Clinton Hill, (Nude #2), 1950, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. From 1949 to 1951 he attended the Brooklyn...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Jason
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Signed and titled (lower right)
84cm × 60cm (87cm × 62cm framed)
Cayford, now retired, was a graphic designer and illustrator working in London in the postwar period...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Jazz Band I, Modern Watercolor Painting by Charles Burdick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charles Burdick, American (1924 - ) - Jazz Band I, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Watercolor, signed l.r., Size: 14 x 10 in. (35.56 x 25.4 cm), Frame Size: 20 x 15 inches
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Portrait of an Italian Fencer, " John Frederick Kensett, Hudson River School
Located in New York, NY
John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872)
Portrait of an Italian Fencer, circa 1845-47
Watercolor on wove paper
13 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Signed with initials and inscribed lower right "J.F.K. Rome"
From October 1845 through the spring of 1847, Kensett lived in Rome. He attended classes where he sketched from live models, and he sketched in the countryside outside Rome and around Florence, Perugia, and Venice, places he visited with his artist friends. He fulfilled commissions for paintings from Americans in Italy, and by 1847 his career was well established.
Son of an English immigrant engraver, John Kensett lacked enthusiasm for that medium and became one of the most accomplished painters of the second generation of Hudson River School painters. His reputation is for Luminism, careful depiction of light, weather, and atmosphere as they affect color and texture of natural forms. He was particularly influenced by the painting of Asher Durand in that he focused on realism and detail rather than the highly dramatic views associated with Thomas Cole. Going to the western United States in the mid 1850s and the 1860s, he was the first of the Hudson River School painters to explore and paint the West.
Kensett was born and raised in Cheshire, Connecticut, and learned his engraving from his father, Thomas Kensett with whom he worked in New Haven, Connecticut until 1829. He continued working until 1840 as an engraver of labels, banknotes and maps and was employed part of that time by the American Bank Note Company in New York City. There he met Thomas Rossiter, John Casilear, and other artists who urged him to pursue painting. In 1840, he and Rossiter, Asher Durand, and Casilear went to Europe where Kensett stayed for seven years and supported himself by doing engraving but became accomplished in landscape painting.
Having sent canvases of Italian landscapes back to New York, he had a reputation for skillful painting that preceded him. When he returned to New York City in 1847, he was an "instant success" and very sought after by collectors. Two of his Italian landscapes had already been purchased by the American Art Union. By 1849, he was a full member of the National Academy of Design and was generally popular among his peers. His studio was a gathering place with travelers stopping by to see his canvases and to identify "precise locations in the Catskills or Newport or New England in the oil sketches and drawings that covered his walls." (Zellman 170). For the women, he was a popular bachelor, "romantic looking with high forehead and sensitive expression." (Samuels 262)
He was also sought after by many organizations. Among his activities were serving on the committee to oversee the decoration of the United States Capitol in Washington DC, and becoming one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
An inveterate traveler, Kensett spent summers on painting excursions away from New York City. One of these trips was a special painting excursion with fifteen other artists sponsored by the B & O Railroad from Baltimore, Maryland to Wheeling, West Virginia. Unlike many of the Hudson River painters...
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1840s Hudson River School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Original Drawing - Pencil on paper - Unique piece - Takeru Amano - Japan Art
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original drawing made with pencil on paper
Unique piece
Category
2010s Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
St. John the Baptist in the wilderness , Ecce Agnus Dei (Behold the Lamb of God)
By Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Il Guercino)
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and sepia ink and wash on vellum, 8 7/8 x 10 1/2 inches (225 x 267 mm). In very good condition with some modern notations in pencil on the verso, minor cockling, and a 1-inch hor...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Vellum, Pencil
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Seymour Fogel (1911-1984)
Mural Study, untitled
11 x 49 1/4 inches (sight)
Tempera on board
Provenance:...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
A Dynamic 1945 Mid-Century Modern Cubist Studio Scene, Artist Sketch Class
Located in Chicago, IL
A Dynamic, 1945 Mid-Century Modern Cubist Studio Scene, Artist's Sketch Class by Noted Chicago Painter, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches, unframed, mo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
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